This week’s chapter of Red Light Properties remains one of my favorites since I wrote it; whenever your characters take the wheel and tell you how they want to relate to each other despite your intentions, you know it rings true:
You can also start reading from the beginning here.
Tuesday brings a new installment of RED LIGHT PROPERTIES over at Tor.com; this week sees some after-hours aetheric espionage:
You can also start reading from the beginning here.
Today brings a new chapter of Red Light Properties, in which the sun slowly sets on a very rough day for our gang, now online at Tor.com:
This week’s episode of Red Light Properties give the team a moment to exhale and remember how goddamn mad they are at each other. Online now at Tor.com:
Happy Tuesday, everyone… I’ve baked you some fresh comics, ready now:
The fourth installment of Red Light Properties has just gone live on Tor.com, and this chapter has some of the freakiest/inspired work I’ve ever done. Be nice and leave a comment; I’m ahead enough now to man that microphone myself:
Or you can start the series from the beginning.
I was interviewed earlier this month on Seth Kushner’s excellent NYC Graphic Novelists blog about my love for comics and (naturally) my new series, and I rather liked this poetical notion that popped out of my fingertips:
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of ghosts, of places holding onto echoes of their inhabitants; when I was a kid in Florida, I spent a summer riding my bike to the library everyday and reading every book on ghost photography I could get my hands on… It probably had to do with me losing one of my grandfathers early on and seeing him hanging around our house for a few years afterwards. But when you cross that obsession and sensitivity with a love of history and culture, all of a sudden those echoes contain music, perfumes, context… and there’s a certain romance to that, of old times that have passed on but still remain.
It was also an opportunity for Seth to showcase some of his excellent photography we’ve done together over the last few years for various book projects, like the following pic:
I love this pic for two reasons: 1) it’s a total fake… I’m still in my old bedroom in Brooklyn, floating against a photoshopped Miami background and Seth lit me to match the beach moonlight, and 2) that leather loveseat is where I wrote Red Light Properties’ final 7th draft; I left it behind in Williamsburg when we moved down to São Paulo and my heart still aches for my cool and smooshy place to sit and dream.
Our current couch here aches my tuchus after extended sessions; stay tuned for fuckin’ fascinating future furniture developments.
I’m doing a bit of catch-up here as I’ve launched a new series and moved to another country since I experienced this incredible MIT conference, so please bear with me, my lovelies, as I marry the signal-gaps and blog my way back to the present:
This past November, I was a speaker at the Converge Culture Consortium at MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 4 conference, taking part on the “Unboxing the Medium” panel discussion. Here’s the panel description with embedded video below:
What counts as “radio” when it comes via podcast rather than over the air? How do we create “television” as the limitations of spectrum scarcity slip away and content is delivered online?Media is determined by conventions that emerge from both technological constraints and cultural practices – the technologies of content delivery shape the industrial and the creative modes that define something like “television.” In a world of convergence, the basis for many of the conventions that define media are in flux. How can we come to understand and redefine the industrial, consumption and creative practices of media as convergence works to erode some of the distinctions between them?
How is radio affected once it moves from the Hertzian waves to the podcast? What happens to the comic once it moves from the page to a Playstation? How are audiences responding to and shaping these shifts? And how are business models adapting to these changes?
Moderated by Joshua Green – Research Manager, Convergence Culture Consortium
Dan Goldman – Illustrator of Shooting War
Jennifer Holt – UC Santa Barbara, co-editor of Media Industries (Wiley-Blackwell)
Brian Larkin – Milbank Barnard College
Avner Ronen – CEO & Co-founder, Boxee
You can watch videos of the entire FOE4 conference now here.
The fine folks at the Radar project dedicated a full episode of this season to myself and Red Light Properties, making a short film about how I create this new work at this particular turning point in my life/career.
And if you’re not already reading RLP, the first page is right here.
You can also check out the rest of Radar’s well-done arts series on Babelgum.
The third installment of RED LIGHT PROPERTIES just went live on Tor.com, where we get to spend some solo time with Jude Tobin and secretary/ghost photog Zoya Pashenko. You can check it out here:
Or you can start the series from the beginning.
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